The Ojo Internet Mailbox (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) OUR LITERARY AWARDS—CIRCA 2012 John Ward What illustrious company! I am amazed and humbled and honored to be even considered in such a group of astoundingly talented writers. Look! I’m even red from blushing! SYGENE 28 September 1936 – 7
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Ode To A Slow Dusk In her own determined and sweet, nearly tortuously delicate ascent, her pomegranate ruffled skirt moved toward the ruby magenta of a hummingbird’s heart. While we, the reverent, the rested, reflective like the ocean settled the wide web of our roots deep into the underside of this tropical island,
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr robmohr@gmail.com Ken Gosh –Amplifying Nature With Genteel Abstraction Josef Albers, one of the great non-figurative painters of the 20th century, wrote, “Abstraction is real, more real than nature. I prefer to see with my imagination.” Seeing with his imagination, Ken Gosh’s intricate paintings, imbedded with dragonflies, roosters, and
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Out Of Control By Carol L. Bowman It’s the sound. The sound that never leaves me; the sound that frightens me every time I relive those moments thirty-two years ago; the sound that forever pierces and never fades. It was supposed to be a day of celebration, that 4th of July in 1980. My
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Quartet by Ronald Harwood Directed by Ann Swiston Four aging opera singers are residents in a Retirement Home for musicians and performers, and this play revives their memories of long-ago rivalries and triumphs. As usual with Harwood, the writing is wordy and sometimes pretentious – however, first-time director
View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkwatson@oscmanuals.com In my ten years of summering here each year “to finish a book,” always my excuse to leave the brutal Texas heat far behind, I have long been intrigued by the South Shore. Looking over from the summer places I’ve lived in from Chapala to Ajijic,
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The Quixotic Orozco By Gary Donalds As of late, and via an attempt to understand and hopefully blend more Into my soon-to- be adopted home in Mexico, I have taken to the history books and discovered an extremely complicated, rich in folklore, and often at times downright incredible morass of textured historical events that
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OUR LITERARY AWARDS—CIRCA 2012 THE 18TH OJO AWARDS LUNCHEON With Ed Tasca, John Ward and Roberto Oritz providing the super entertainment, the latest luncheon—which drew well over a hundred people—was one of our best ever. To our winners—heartiest congratulations, and to the other nominees, we send along our thanks, and say to them: Wait’ll Next
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Mexico’s Most Mysterious Man At the height of his fame in the 1940’s, with his novels known in nearly every corner of the world, no one knew his real name. Some thought he was Ret Murat, a communist rabble-rouser in pre-Hitler Germany, others thought him the illegitimate son of
